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OverDrive Audiobooks February 2020 |
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"Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet." -- Bryan Stevenson |
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February is Black History Month |
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Just Mercy : a Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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How We Fight For Our Lives : a Memoir
by Saeed Jones
The co-host of BuzzFeed’s AM to DM, award-winning poet and author of Prelude to Bruise documents his coming-of-age as a young, gay, black man in an American South at a crossroads of sex, race and power.
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Dapper Dan : Made in Harlem : a Memoir
by Daniel R. Day
A memoir by the legendary designer who pioneered high-end streetwear traces his rise from an early-1980s Harlem storefront to the red carpet in Hollywood, working with such celebrities as Salt-N-Pepa and Beyoncé.
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Jay-Z : Made in America
by Michael Eric Dyson
Examines the biggest themes of JAY-Z’s career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making statements about race, criminal justice and black wealth. By the author of Tears We Cannout Stop.
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The Shape of Water
by Guillermo del Toro
The famed director of Pan's Labyrinth and a celebrated author combine their talents to craft an otherworldly story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America, in which an amphibious man is discovered in the Amazon—and subsequently finds love within the human race, in a tale that inspired the film starring Octavia Spencer.
Best Picture: 2018
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Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War. It validated Harriett Beecher Stowe's fictional account of Southern slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had become the best-selling American book in history a few years earlier, and significantly changed public opinion in favor of abolition.
Best Picture: 2013
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Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
by Antonio J. Mendez
A dramatic account of a lesser-known aspect of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.
Best Picture: 2012
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Slumdog Millionaire : a Novel
by Vikas Swarup
Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on the Indian game show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" semi-literate waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas explains to his lawyer how he knew the answers due to events in his personal life.
Best Picture: 2009
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The English Patient : a Novel
by Michael Ondaatje
At the end of World War II, the lives of four people--a young American nurse; her dying English patient; a handless American thief; and an Indian soldier in the British army--intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.
Best Picture: 1996
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